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Movies: Best Movies in Turkmen(Türkmen)

Turkmen (türkmençe, түркменче, تۆرکمنچه, [tʏɾkmøntʃø] or türkmen dili, түркмен дили, تۆرکمن ديلی, [tʏɾkmøn dɪlɪ]), sometimes referred to as Turkmen Turkic or Turkmen Turkish, is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia. It has an estimated 4.3 million native speakers in Turkmenistan (where it is the official language), and a further 719,000 speakers in northeastern Iran and 1.5 million people in northwestern Afghanistan, where it has no official status. Turkmen is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Turkmen communities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and by diaspora communities, primarily in Turkey and Russia. Turkmen is a member of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. It is closely related to Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Qashqai, and Turkish, sharing varying degrees of mutual intelligibility with each of those languages. However, the closest relative of Turkmen is considered Khorasani Turkic, spoken in northeastern regions of Iran and with which it shares the eastern subbranch of Oghuz languages, as well as Khorazm, the Oghuz dialect of Uzbek spoken mainly in Khorezm along the Turkmenistan border. Elsewhere in Iran, the Turkmen language comes second after the Azerbaijani langu... ()

Turkmen is spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and 2 movies (between 1972 and 1983) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Soviet Union (2). Popular genres for Turkmen movies are Drama (1). The Daughter-in-Law (1972) and The Education of a Man (1983) are among the best known & most successful Turkmen movies.


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The Education of a Man(1983)

1h 17min
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A young boy is taken from his cozy existence in the city to live with his grandfather in the wild countryside of Central Asia.

The Daughter-in-Law(1972)

1h 21min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.